Re: [rspec-users] !~ seems to not work

/ SyntaxError: compile error (irb):2: syntax error, unexpected '~', expecting $end 'abc' ~! /def/ ^ from (irb):2 And of course the solution is to use should_not 'abc'.should_not =~ /def/ or 'abc'.should_not match(/def/) -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Github

Re: [rspec-users] !~ seems to not work

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 7:59 AM, David Chelimsky dchelim...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks for setting things straight. Just happy to be here sir! -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Github: http://github.com/rubyredrick Twitter: @RickDeNatale WWR: http

Re: [rspec-users] difference between validate and validate_on_create

/active_record_validations_callbacks.html#creating-custom-validation-methods -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Github: http://github.com/rubyredrick Twitter: @RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale

Re: [rspec-users] Possible to ask rspec to show more code in the debugger?

for the list command to show, perhaps that file changed. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Github: http://github.com/rubyredrick Twitter: @RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale

Re: [rspec-users] Named routes problem... more rails than rspec

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 9:09 AM, David Chelimsky dchelim...@gmail.com wrote: You can either use mock_model or mock_stub David, Did you mean to say stub_model rather than mock_stub? -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Github: http://github.com/rubyredrick Twitter

Re: [rspec-users] Is there an easy way to inject each example text into test.log

} ^^ ===   Rails.logger.debug === ^^ #{m.example.location} ^^ ===  end end I'm thinking this might be an interesting use case for a custom formatter. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Github: http://github.com/rubyredrick Twitter: @RickDeNatale WWR: http

Re: [rspec-users] Difference between :each and :all

) for some people, after(:any) to me evokes the curent meaning of after(:each) more than it does after(:all), i.e. after any OF the examples rather than after all the examples, because I'd never say after any the examples. But that might just be me. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2

Re: [rspec-users] major release required?

? That sounds reasonably pragmatic to me. Of course I've only had two sips of coffee this morning. G -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Github: http://github.com/rubyredrick Twitter: @RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn

Re: [rspec-users] major release required?

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:31 PM, David Chelimsky dchelim...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 18, 2011, at 11:08 AM, Rick DeNatale wrote: On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:15 AM, David Chelimsky dchelim...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Since the release of rspec-2.0, I've been following Rubygems' rational

Re: [rspec-users] major release required?

for the option if you decide to do #1 end -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Github: http://github.com/rubyredrick Twitter: @RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale

Re: [rspec-users] Problems running RSpec 2 with autotest/autospec

to get this working would really be appreciated. Michelle -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. ___ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http

Re: [rspec-users] Testing attr_accessible (and/or attr_protected)

matchers (including the Shoulda matchers) freely available. -- Rick DeNatale Help fund my talk at Ruby Conf 2010:http://pledgie.com/campaigns/13677 Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Github: http://github.com/rubyredrick Twitter: @RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person

Re: [rspec-users] DateTime.now.utc in fixtures

-while-youre-having-fun-testing More recently I've been using timecop http://github.com/jtrupiano/timecop It allows time to be either frozen or offset, and it stubs Time, DateTime and Date to do the right thing. -- Rick DeNatale Help fund my talk at Ruby Conf 2010:http://pledgie.com/campaigns

Re: [rspec-users] Monitor method invoking from superclass

of the call are 'as if' the super call were made. If you could test that the super call was made it would be testing that the implementation were a certain way more than the behavior of the object, and that's the road to writing brittle tests. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2

Re: [rspec-users] Monitor method invoking from superclass

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Zhi-Qiang Lei zhiqiang@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 30, 2010, at 9:56 PM, Rick DeNatale wrote: What you really should be testing that the observable effects of the call are 'as if' the super call were made. If you could test that the super call was made

Re: [rspec-users] Recognising RSpec files in the Textmate bundle

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Ashley Moran ashley.mo...@patchspace.co.uk wrote: On 9 Aug 2010, at 17:37, Rick DeNatale wrote: Well, I'd still use a different file name suffix which I could set textmate to recognize as a spec _sspec.rb or _sgroup.rb something like that. Hi Rick, I

Re: [rspec-users] Order guarantees of let

to be in Beta 15.0 supposedly the final beta version. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Github: http://github.com/rubyredrick Twitter: @RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale

Re: [rspec-users] Recognising RSpec files in the Textmate bundle

time. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Github: http://github.com/rubyredrick Twitter: @RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale ___ rspec-users

Re: [rspec-users] Order guarantees of let

are invoked in the example won't it? -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Github: http://github.com/rubyredrick Twitter: @RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale

Re: [rspec-users] Recognising RSpec files in the Textmate bundle

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:23 AM, David Chelimsky dchelim...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 9, 2010, at 9:56 AM, Rick DeNatale wrote: On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Elliot Winkler elliot.wink...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Phillip Koebbe phillipkoe...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [rspec-users] Recognising RSpec files in the Textmate bundle

, delimiter matching etc. and the cost of having a separate language definition in the RSpec bundle in terms of confusion and or maintenance probably isn't worth it. For more about how textmate detects file times see: http://blog.macromates.com/2007/file-type-detection-rspec-rails/ -- Rick DeNatale

Re: [rspec-users] [RSpec] Dynamic reloading with Object.send(:remove_const)

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Bruno Cardoso li...@ruby-forum.com wrote: Rick Denatale wrote: Your pastie says # this should have made Account go back to its original state but it's not working. # this works outside of RSpec. but I don't understand in what context.  In general this won't

Re: [rspec-users] [RSpec] Dynamic reloading with Object.send(:remove_const)

# = [m1] Foo.class_eval(def m2;end) foo.methods - Object.instance_methods # = [m1, m2] Object.send(:remove_const, 'Foo') defineFoo foo2 = Foo.new foo2.methods - Object.instance_methods # = [m1] foo.methods - Object.instance_methods # = [m1, m2] foo.class == foo2.class # = false -- Rick DeNatale

Re: [rspec-users] set expectation using self in constructor?

the results rather than the implementation: e.g. foo = Foo.new foo.bar.should == foo Assuming that foo and bar have public accessors for bar and foo respectively. If not you can use instance_variable_get to 'get' around that. HTH -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com

[rspec-users] Quickie blog article about dealing with Bundler, RSpec and Rake

http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/2010/06/25/making-rspec-rake-and-bundler-play-well-together Note this is for Rails 2.3, not sure if Rails 3 and Rspec 2 would be different. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Github: http://github.com/rubyredrick Twitter: @RickDeNatale

Re: [rspec-users] rspec-rails 2 webrat dependency

dependencies. I have a similar issue with the RiCal gem. It works with either the activesupport OR tzinfo gems, rather than require either I just document that it requires one or the other and leave it up to the user. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Github: http

Re: [rspec-users] Rails 3 Support/Design

-dev gem or something like that. Breaking up gems seems to have been a theme in the transition from Rails 2 - Rails 3. Just an idea -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Github: http://github.com/rubyredrick Twitter: @RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person

Re: [rspec-users] Rspec 2 (beta.11) view spec haml

than describe user_sessions/new.html.haml do -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Github: http://github.com/rubyredrick Twitter: @RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale

Re: [rspec-users] Rails 3 Support/Design

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:17 AM, David Chelimsky dchelim...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 11, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Rick DeNatale wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:10 PM, David Chelimsky dchelim...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:14 PM, geetarista geetari...@gmail.com wrote: Since Rspec

Re: [rspec-users] How do I isolation test against different gem versions?

directive to specify a particular version of active_record. Have a look at http://github.com/rubyredrick/ri_cal/tree/master/tasks/ Particularly spec.rake and the files in the gem_loader sub directory. HTH -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Github: http://github.com

Re: [rspec-users] RSpec newb - why is my negative test not passing?

(url)}.should raise_exception  end end -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Github: http://github.com/rubyredrick Twitter: @RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale

Re: [rspec-users] Failing test despite expected and got being identical ...

be better if the failure were reported like this: expected: ([:all, {:conditions=[value LIKE ?, %chart_event%]}]) got: (:all, {:conditions=[value LIKE ?, %chart_event%]}) -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Github: http://github.com/rubyredrick Twitter: @RickDeNatale

Re: [rspec-users] Good practices on spec'ing views?

specs tend to be brittle. If views have a lot of logic, that's a code smell. In rails such behavior belongs in either the controller, or a helper, and that's where I invest my spec efforts. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Github: http://github.com/rubyredrick Twitter

Re: [rspec-users] File creation

as a parameter, and test that method passing in a StringIO. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Github: http://github.com/rubyredrick Twitter: @RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale

[rspec-users] Anyone used RSpec to write specs for rake tasks?

of testing harness for Rake tasks with RSpec. I tried googling but kept coming up with stuff about using the rake tasks provided by RSpec. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Github: http://github.com/rubyredrick Twitter: @RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com

Re: [rspec-users] rspec-2 update

be: http://github.com/rspec/rspec http://github.com/rspec/rspec-core http://github.com/rspec/rspec-dev http://github.com/rspec/rspec-expectations http://github.com/rspec/rspec-mocks http://github.com/rspec/rspec-rails -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http

Re: [rspec-users] RSpec-2 and The RSpec Book

that the current beta PDF will serve as the best checkpoint for RSpec 1 and Rails 2.x. I guess it's time to print a personal hard-copy. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn

[rspec-users] Of ActiveRecord, arel, and train wrecks

(:comments) From one aspect, I find all this very nice. It makes writing queries easier and much more readable. On the other hand these are the kind of train wreck violations of the strong suggestion of Demeter which makes mocking and stubbing difficult among other things. Thoughts? -- Rick DeNatale

Re: [rspec-users] Of ActiveRecord, arel, and train wrecks

tend to do, is to not use chained scopes in controllers, but define model methods which use them, which allows for stubbing/mocking those methods, and keeps the train wrecks isolated. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http

Re: [rspec-users] Question About Cleaning Up Specs?

, although I'd guess in most conventional rails apps these days you'd actually stub the controllers current_user method to return @user rather than stubbing User.find -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com

Re: [rspec-users] Best practices to managing RSpec code for very large projects?

you delay the heat death of the universe! G -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale

Re: [rspec-users] somewhat confused by the help instructions...

guitar! -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale ___ rspec-users mailing list rspec

[rspec-users] Can I set an expectation that a method invokes super?

, but my imagination is failing me as to how to do it. Any ideas? -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale

Re: [rspec-users] default to just call the method?

is clearer IMHO. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale ___ rspec-users mailing list

Re: [rspec-users] more verbosity for be_an?

probably wanted 1.should be_a FixNum instead of 1.class.should be_a Fixnum -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale

Re: [rspec-users] 'Expected NoMethodError, got NameError'

so. Appreciation is always appreciated :) I can appreciate that! -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale

Re: [rspec-users] more verbosity for be_an?

. However, I need to point out that although 1.should be_a Fixnum that 1.class.should_not be_a Fixnum because 1.class == Fixnum which is after all a Class, and not a Fixnum itself. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http

Re: [rspec-users] class variables different between spec and runtime?

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Andrew Premdas aprem...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/22 Rick DeNatale rick.denat...@gmail.com Please explain why - thanks. Because, classes and class variables aren't guaranteed to be persistent. In development mode, classes can get reloaded, which wipes out

Re: [rspec-users] rake spec seems to not clean the database after failing specs

to debug failures if you preserve the evidence. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale

Re: [rspec-users] class variables different between spec and runtime?

@params in the User instances (in update_with_profile). HTH, David Also counting on class variables to retain state in Rails is a recipe for disaster. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com

Re: [rspec-users] concept of given

a certain set of paths do before(:each) do # code to set up the paths however the included specs need them, e.g. @paths = [a/b, c/d] end it should be able to recreate them do; end it ...; end end I tend to use describe for the top level, and context when nested. -- Rick DeNatale Blog

Re: [rspec-users] New RSpec methods to Object proposal: should_all and should_none

is to minimize disturbing the system being speced. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale

Re: [rspec-users] New RSpec methods to Object proposal: should_all and should_none

as none_of(x, y, z).should be_allowed_to(...) maybe [x, y, z].should all_not_be_alllowed_to(...) but I'm not sure -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http

Re: [rspec-users] Rspec - Creation of stories

the RSpec book which is currently under development and covers both RSpec and Cucumber. Although it's pre-production, it's available under the Pragmatic Programmers beta program. http://pragprog.com/titles/achbd/the-rspec-book -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http

Re: [rspec-users] surprising...

you're talking about. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale ___ rspec-users

[rspec-users] Anyone using the rspec textmate bundle with Ruby 1.9.1

I'm now in the process of facing converting a rails app to use Ruby 1.9.1. Has anyone figured out how to use 1.9 with the RSpec bundle in textmate and preferably how to switch back and forth? -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale

[rspec-users] Is there a good (non-judgemental) comparison of Rspec mocking vs Mocha?

be a comparison/conversion chart somewhere, like the Test:Unit = RSpec translation guide in the RSpec docs, but my usually awesome google skills seem to be failing me on this. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http

Re: [rspec-users] Using ActiveRecord without Rails

passenger and apache, but I've done similar things on a linux development machine before. On OS X, the passenger preference pane makes this dead easy, and passenger runs the rails app on demand, and shuts it down when it's been idle. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter

Re: [rspec-users] undefined method `and_return'

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Re: [rspec-users] undefined method `and_return'

to run the spec under rdebug, put a breakpoint before the stub! call and step into it to see what's going on. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http

Re: [rspec-users] polymorphic controller testing

to find controller methods anyway. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale

Re: [rspec-users] Sharing code and still keeping a only commit if all is green discipline

/process are holding you back. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale ___ rspec

Re: [rspec-users] Sharing code and still keeping a only commit if all is green discipline

it. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale ___ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users

Re: [rspec-users] Telling rspec that a method might be called with a OR b ... ?

@some_object.should_receive(:some_message).with(any_of(a, b, c)) As long as you don't need to set different return values for different arguments, that could be done with a new ArgumentMatcher. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http

Re: [rspec-users] basic noob question

actually calling anything after the message expectation, so I suspect that this is a poorly abstracted version of your actual code. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale

[rspec-users] Blue-ridge

, albeit for a different field. http://www.screwcumber.com/ -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale

Re: [rspec-users] On Mocks vs Stubs in the context of rSpec

of some_method and it's relationship to the intialize method. It's more gray-box than black-box. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com

Re: [rspec-users] testing controller instance variables

, and sometimes something else like the number of bytes, depending in the receiver object. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com

Re: [rspec-users] Noob syntax questions regarding rspec book...

and not the language - the same is true for Rspec. I hope to laugh at my mistakes in a year or two :-) And I tend to think of regular expressions as a language within a language. Lot's of programming languages incorporate regular expressions with slight variations. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http

Re: [rspec-users] Noob syntax questions regarding rspec book...

).should include(mark) end \n is a ruby string literal representing a new-line, so @messenger.string.split(\n) results in an array comprising each line within @messenger.string -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http

[rspec-users] Running RSpec under MultiRuby

I just published a quick article showing how to use the patch I provided and David just release in RSpec 1.2.7 to run your specs using multiruby: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/2009/06/24/rspec-meet-multiruby -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http

Re: [rspec-users] Running RSpec under MultiRuby

went the way I did was that it allows other rake tasks to depend on the multiruby rspec tasks without requiring ALL rake tests to run under multiruby. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person

Re: [rspec-users] The problem with learning RSpec

, but the trade-offs in when and when not to use them. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale

Re: [rspec-users] Missing template in helper specs with a render

will see that message. If I couldn't come up with a better name for foo_message which revealed that, I'd probably prefer leaving the if test in the view. Resolving the tensions between things like dumb views and intention revealing names is why they pay us the big bucks! G -- Rick DeNatale Blog

[rspec-users] New Zentest, any feedback?

of zentest which a lot of folks don't use as much. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale

Re: [rspec-users] Mock should receive no messages?

an object which should not get any messages do it should not receive any messages do o = mock(Object) o.foo end end Mock 'Object' received unexpected message :foo with (no args) -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR

Re: [rspec-users] Mock should receive no messages?

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:30 PM, David Chelimsky dchelim...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Rick DeNatale rick.denat...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:01 PM, David Chelimsky dchelim...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Sebastian W. li...@ruby-forum.com

Re: [rspec-users] Disabling cucumber for autotest

://github.com/svoop/autotest-fsevent/tree and autotest-growl http://github.com/svoop/autotest-growl/tree I opened a ticket asking for some means to control whether or not it tries to run Cucumber scenarios https://forge.bitcetera.com/issues/show/18 -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http

Re: [rspec-users] Disabling cucumber for autotest

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Ben Lovell benjamin.lov...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Rick DeNatale rick.denat...@gmail.com wrote: Now you don't happen to be using the recently released autotest-mac gem are you? It does automatically run scenarios, and I'd like

Re: [rspec-users] Class method not being stubbed

of: AdSenseHeavenParser.should_receive(:parse).with(keyword_list_contents).and_return({:keywords = [], :errors = []}) You should have controller.should_receive(:parse).with(keyword_list_contents).and_return({:keywords = [], :errors = []}) -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com

Re: [rspec-users] Class method not being stubbed

) the require wouldn't be needed since it would be autoloaded. Perhaps the problem lies there somewhere. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http

Re: [rspec-users] List Split

user, to me the Java stuff is the noise G. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale

Re: [rspec-users] Can I run the same specs with different gems? Ideas?

On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 11:57 AM, David Chelimsky dchelim...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Rick DeNatale rick.denat...@gmail.com wrote:  Ideally I'd like to have rake tasks like rake spec:tzinfo rake spec:activesupport rake spec:both The problem is that I think I

Re: [rspec-users] Can I run the same specs with different gems? Ideas?

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Rick DeNatale rick.denat...@gmail.com wrote: So I tried to make a spectask to run the specs after require in activesupport by adding this in my rake file: desc Run all specs with activesupport Spec::Rake::SpecTask.new(:spec_as) do |t|  t.spec_opts

Re: [rspec-users] RSpec support on .Net with Gallio.

purposes?  I was unable to find the RSpec license to confirm.  Gallio itself is open source and is distributed using the Apache License 2.0. RSpec is licensed under the MIT license: http://github.com/dchelimsky/rspec/blob/dfffe80e65067e8410f54d30b9de96a942b1fa10/License.txt -- Rick DeNatale

[rspec-users] Can I run the same specs with different gems? Ideas?

spec:tzinfo rake spec:activesupport rake spec:both The problem is that I think I need something like the fork option for spec task similar to the one in the cucumber task, since once loaded I can't unload one or the other gem in the same ruby process. Is there a trick I'm missing? -- Rick DeNatale

Re: [rspec-users] [cucumber] Is it usual that selenium doesn't allow debugger?

does this. David C. and I put support for the -u/--debugger options for the spec command a few releases back, I don't know if this has any effect on cucumber. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http

Re: [rspec-users] Separation of duties Cucumber and Rspec ... RE: Noob question

thing that NEEDS to be done is a very good way to stave off the desire to shave yaks. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale

Re: [rspec-users] Current Evaluation of RSpec

-- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale ___ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users

Re: [rspec-users] Current Evaluation of RSpec

of RSpec is fascinating- very organic and collaborative. For another recent barometer reading of how much ReSPECt RSpec gets these days, have a look at http://rubytrends.com/ -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http

Re: [rspec-users] RSPEC book example in Chapter 3.

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Re: [rspec-users] Problems running features with Textmate Cucumber bundle

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Rick DeNatale rick.denat...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Ben Mabey b...@benmabey.com wrote: Rick DeNatale wrote: I finally plunked down for the beta RSpec bundle and I'm working through the initial example.  Although I'm a fairly

Re: [rspec-users] Problems running features with Textmate Cucumber bundle

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Ben Mabey b...@benmabey.com wrote: Rick DeNatale wrote: I finally plunked down for the beta RSpec bundle and I'm working through the initial example.  Although I'm a fairly experienced RSpec user, I'm stlll learning new tricks. Anyway,  I'm going though

Re: [rspec-users] Problems running features with Textmate Cucumber bundle

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:07 AM, aslak hellesoy aslak.helle...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Rick DeNatale rick.denat...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Rick DeNatale rick.denat...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Ben Mabey b

Re: [rspec-users] Problems running features with Textmate Cucumber bundle

? Is there an environment variable I need to set in textmate? -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale

[rspec-users] Problems running features with Textmate Cucumber bundle

false Cucumber runs fine from bash. Am I missing some setup? -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale

Re: [rspec-users] Reuse of Cucumber Features

to another flight leaving on the following day when you reuse the steps in other cases. I found myself wanting to do meta bdd on my story code! -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick

[rspec-users] RSpec style and truthiness

grating. I'm tempted to write a pair of matchers like be_truthy and be_falsy, but I was wondering what other RSpec users have to say. -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/RickDeNatale WWR: http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale

Re: [rspec-users] Problem spec'ing ActionMailer with attachment, body not getting rendered.

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Rick DeNatale rick.denat...@gmail.comwrote: I've got a simple ActionMailer::Base subclass: class InfoMailer ActionMailer::Base def info(user, zip_name) recipients user.email subject Requested Info attachment(:content_type = application/zip

[rspec-users] Problem spec'ing ActionMailer with attachment, body not getting rendered.

the only part. I've got one other mailer method in that mailer which doesn't contain an attachement, and it's body comes out fine. I'm not sure what's going on here, and I'd appreciate any help/insight/condolences... -- Rick DeNatale Blog: http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ Twitter: http

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